Thalassinoides

Thalassinoides
Thalassinoides
Thalassinoides, burrows produced by thalassinideans, from the Middle Jurassic, Makhtesh Qatan, southern Israel
Trace fossil classification
Ichnogenus: Thalassinoides
Ehrenberg, 1944

Thalassinoides is an ichnogenus of trace fossil, also known as Ophiomorpha, Teichichnus, Gyrolithes and Spongeliomorpha.[1] Thalassinoides is used to refer to "dichotomously or T-branched boxworks, mazes and shafts, unlined and unornmented",[2]:179 and facies of Thalassinoides increased suddenly in abundance at the beginning of the Mesozoic.[2]:251 Such burrows are made by a number of organisms, including the sea anemone Cerianthus, Balanoglossus and fishes, but are most closely associated with decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Thalassinidea.[3]

References

  1. ^ Markus Bertling, Simon J. Braddy, Richard G. Bromley, Georges R. Demathieu, Jorge Genise, Radek Mikul, Jan K. Nielsen, Kurt S. S. Nielsen, Andrew K. Rindsberg, Michael Schlirf & Alfred Uchman (2006). "Names for trace fossils: a uniform approach". Lethaia 39 (3): 265–286. doi:10.1080/00241160600787890. http://bristol.academia.edu/SimonBraddy/Papers/277194/Names_for_Trace_Fossils_a_Uniform_Approach. 
  2. ^ a b Richard Granville Bromley (1996). Trace Fossils: Biology, Taphonomy and Applications (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780412614804. 
  3. ^ Paul M. Myrow (1995). "Thalassinoides and the enigma of Early Paleozoic open-framework burrow systems". Palaios 10 (1): 58–74. JSTOR 3515007. 

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